Fedora Test Day - 20 Second Startup - get your boot on!

[Harald Hoyer]

James Laska wrote:
> Greetings testers,
> 
> This week's Test Day will focus on another upcoming Fedora 11 feature:
> 20 Second Startup [1].  This is a follow-on to a Fedora 10 effort to
> reduce boot delay [2].  
> 
> Harald Hoyer, David Kovalsky and Ondrej Hudlicky have created a test
> procedure and looking to gather and analyze bootchart data.  Come
> prepared with your favorite old-skool hardware setup.
> 
> Join #fedora-qa this Thursday, February 19, 2009 to help collect and
> analyze boot speed data.  Follow the action at
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days/2009-02-19.
> 
> Thanks,
> James
> 
> [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/20SecondStartup
> [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/30SecondStartup
> 

Thanks to all who participated!

As a first outcome a new and improved readahead-1.4.8 hit rawhide today.

readahead-1.4.8
    - set low io priority (no more regression in boot time with readahead)
    - moved data files from /etc/readahead.d to /var/lib/readahead
    - don't start readahead from readahead.event if system has less than 384MB